Nested Leaves Cover, Take 2

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I got to that point the other day where I actually acknowledged the need to clean up and put some things away.  Unfortunately it didn't last long because I was sidetracked by a big pile of die cuts left over from when I created these cards using my Nested Leaves cover plate.

I sat down and said I was going to make just one or two cards.....seven cards later, I decided I should maybe stop and go back to cleaning.  I still had a lot of die cut pieces, but my goal was not to die cut any additional cover plates, and I probably would have needed to if I wanted to keep creating.

Anyway, these were super fun to create.  I used the same inlay technique as on the last set of card, but just mixed and matched colors.  My last set of cards featured the Be Bold sentiment set, but for these I thought it would be fun to pull out some older products. 

This card uses the All About You set, one of my favorite sentiment sets.  I wanted a bolder puffier look, so the sentiment was embossed three times with white embossing powder.

This one also uses the All About You set, but was just stamped with Versa Clair black ink.

A very clean and simple version features the Love Ya die.  It was cut three times with black cardstock and once with Matte Silver and then adhered directly to the inlaid cover.

This is an older retired sentiment which was cut from Matte Silver and adhered to the shadow piece which was die cut in black and then popped up with foam tape.  A sentiment from the Reverse Yay Sentiment Strips was also popped up with foam tape to complete the look.

For this one, I die cut the Hi from adhesive backed white foam using the Altenew Tall Alpha Die set, one of my all time favorite alpha die sets.

Since the alternating red and black lines of leaves on this card gives kind of an off set look, I thought the Oh Crap sentiment die, which is on a bit of an angle would be perfect.  That was popped up with one layer of foam tape while the secondary sentiment from the Reverse Well Wishes Sentiment Strips set was popped up with two layers of foam tape.

I made a bunch of inlaid cards, but still had a bunch of the cover cuts left, so I did a riff on a card by Alli Frazier where she offset the covers.  I used three covers.  Two were cut in half, adhered slightly offset to one another and then to the whole piece.  This allows the cover to look symmetrical from he center out.

For the sentiment, I cut four of the Yay You dies and adhered them together.  I then pressed my Versamark ink pad over top and clear embossed.  This was done several times to get a more dimensional, glossy look.

A few moonstones finished things off.

I hope you enjoyed my crafty procrastination.  These were a lot of fun to put together, and yes, I did go back and do some cleaning up.  

SSS Celebrate, Flower Power

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Mixing some old, new, and really new on today's card.  I pulled out the new Flower Power stencil from the Celebrate release to create some pretty flowers and leaves.  This stencil coordinates with the Flower Power stamp set, but can used all on it's own as well.

I created three flowers using Cantaloupe and Sherbet for the two golden flowers.  They were very lightly applied for the large flower and more heavily for the small flower.  The pink flower was inked with Watermelon.  I used it for both layers, just more heavily for the center portion.  Mocha was used for the flower centers on all three flowers.  The leaves were created using Fairway.

Once all my pieces were inked, I die cut them with the coordinating dies.

To create some texture and interest, I started by adhering a white Nested Leaves Cover die cut to my card base.  The flowers and leaves were then arranged over top.  The large flower is popped up with one layer of foam tape.  The leaves were adhered directly to the card base/cover die, and the smaller flowers with two layers of foam tape.

The sentiment, from the Well Wishes set was stamped with Versa Clair black ink, die cut and popped up with one layer of foam tape.

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SSS Be Bold, Nested Leaves Cover Two Ways

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Hi friends!  I've got several cards to sure today using my Nested Leaves cover plate.  I'm sharing two different ways to use this plate.  I'm also featuring my Be Bold sentiment set.  While this sentiment set can be used on it's own, it was actually designed so that all the sentiments fit perfectly in the center of the Nested Leaves cover plate.

This first group of cards utilizes simple innking.  For these first two cards, I blended Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn distress ink onto white cardstock panels.  On one of them I used Mowed Lawn around the edges of the panel, for the other, I used it in the center of the panel.  

For this second card, I stepped things up and popped the cover up with foam tape.  The sentiments were gold embossed.

These next two cards use the same inking technique - one with the darker colors in the center and the other around the edges - but this time I mixed things up to ink alternating pairs of leaves.  

For the blues, I used Marine and Cadette and for the peaches I used Cheeky and Blush.

The sentiments were stamped with Versa Claire black ink.

Next up, version two of my cards.  This time, instead of inking, I used cardstock to create the ombre effect.  Here's a look at the blue/pink version.

This involved a lot of die cutting.  After die cutting each of the colors, I cut a 'frame' for my inlay.  A piece of white printer paper run through my Xyron machine to add adhesive to the entire piece was then added to the back of this die cut frame, and the colored pieces were inlaid within.

Just as before, I switched up the orientation of card as well as the direction of the ombre for the second card.

Here's a look at the cards together.

Here are the green inlaid cards.

I was especially excited about how these turned out.  Having a good array of shades in any given color makes a huge difference don't you think?

As before for these darker cards I gold embossed the sentiments.

And here's the side by side look at the inked vs inlaid cards.

Phew!  That was a lot of cards and photos, but so much fun to make.

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